UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 23, 2015. Sverdlovsk Railways will cancel nine of its commuter trains for the winter, the company press service reports. Starting September 27, 2015, the following routes will be affected: Druzhinino-Mikhailovsky Zavod, Yekaterinburg-Revda, Yekaterinburg-Kamensk Uralsky, Yekaterinburg-Nizhniy Tagil, Nizhniy Tagil-Kushva, and Yekaterinburg-Polevskoy. The overall number of commuter trains will be cut by two for each direction. Starting September 28, 2015, trains from Serov to Boksity will no longer be available. Starting October 25, 2015, commuter trains from

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 23, 2015. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob and the Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, His Holiness Kirill signed an agreement on the prospective construction of twenty new Orthodox churches in the city on September 21, 2015. The city council reports the churches will be located on the outskirts of the city and in new residential districts. The Metropolitan explained that some of the churches will be dedicated to special events, such as one hundred years after the end of the First World War and the 400th anniversary of the House of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 23, 2015. The average price of a room in Yekaterinburg hotels went down by 14% in 2015 compared with a year earlier and thus came to 3,211 RUR per night, Oktogo.ru reports. Travelers stay for three days on average. Yekaterinburg, however, did not make it to the list of Russia’s ten cheapest cities to come to. Bryansk (2,343 RUR per hotel room on average) was No.1 in this rating, and Anapa (3,082 RUR) No.10. In the country on the whole, the average price of a night’s stay at a hotel decreased by 5%, down to 3,484 RUR, while that of a stay in a foreign hotel rose

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 23, 2015. ChTPZ Group directed over 25m RUR to cover costs of vacations for 3,200 of its employees working at Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, the company press service reports. Under the company’s Corporate Vacation Program, the Group covers part of the travel and accommodation costs for its workers and invests in summer recreation infrastructure development. ‘We always invest quite a bit in our summer camps and company health resorts. Running our own recreational infrastructure means we can offer our employees some affordable,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 23, 2015. An upgraded 1000 ton-force strong press KB 8340 was newly installed at Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant recently. The new piece of equipment is meant for stamping and bending of parts for railcars and special vehicles, the company press service reports. ‘The startup and commissioning jobs were completed by experts from a Barnaul-based plant. This upgrade was part of our import replacement program. The quality of this Russian machine is flawless, and now that the press control system has been improved, it offers much better value for money than